India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c9.s3.1
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c9.s3.1
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c9.s3.1
Pāṇini uses a variety of terms connected with trade, *e.g.*, currency and barter (*nimāna*), traders (*vāṇija*) and trade routes (*patha*), sale and purchase (*kraya-vikraya*), shops (*āpaṇa*), saleable commodities (*paṇya*), taxes on trade (*śulka*) and banking and loans (*ṛiṇa*).